Diplomatic sources told Zimbabwe Independent in separate interviews this week Sadc leaders feel the MDC leaders have become too comfortable in government, forgetting their presence was meant to create an environment conducive for credible, free and fair elections.
“Sadc has done a lot
for Zimbabwe,” said one diplomat. “It has been firm and resolute, but we are
disappointed with the MDC parties which have not been pushing strongly enough
for the necessary reforms that would allow for free and fair elections.”
“Resolution after
resolution has been adopted by Sadc but up to now, the three parties in the
inclusive government have chosen to ignore them. These resolutions are very
clear and there are even timelines to them, but months before critical
elections little has been implemented.”
Sadc has made key resolutions on Zimbabwe, including implementation of an election roadmap at its summits in Windhoek, Namibia, Livingstone, Zambia, Maputo, Mozambique and Sandton, South Africa, which the MDC parties have seemingly dropped at the weekly principals forum and cabinet meetings or in parliament.
At the Windhoek
summit in 2010, Sadc leaders adopted a report by South African President Jacob
Zuma, which called for implementation of 24 agreed GPA items to lay the basis
for free and fair elections.
The last thing SADC want to see happen in Zimbabwe is a
repeat of the violent elections of 2008 and the region is rightly alarmed that
Zimbabweans are going to vote yes in the referendum and close the door to all
referendum. SADC are so exasperated by all this blundering and dithering by PM
Tsvangirai and MDC and now they have chosen to speak to the people of Zimbabwe
over Tsvangirai’s head!
Zimbabweans can see for themselves that this Copac rubbish is NOT going to
end Zimbabwe’s culture of violence. Now if they will not believe their own eyes
then they should listen to SADC leaders.
What Zimbabweans must know, is that if they blindly follow the blundering
and dithering Tsvangirai and vote yes in the referendum then as night follows
day the nation will be plunged into yet another bloody elections. This time Zimbabweans
will be on their own because, frankly, SADC will not want to know!
2 comments:
WOZA has done a lot of good work in Zimbabwe but this time they overreached themselves. This Copac constitution is not going to deliver any of the basic human rights including the right to free and fair elections - free of violence. Anyone including these WOZA women could see that nothing on the ground had changed to stop a repeat of the violence of 2008 and yet they chose to ignore what their own eyes told them. In mobilizing for a yes vote to this Copac rubbish; WOZA are nothing but busy bodies cheering and applauding Tsvangirai and his MDC idiots dragging the nation into a deadly Mugabe and Zanu PF trap!
Tsvangirai says Minister Obert Mpofu should explain where he got all his wealth.
So when did Tsvangirai first became aware of Obert Mpofu's amassed wealth? The nation should be focusing on this Copac rubbish and instead the idiot brings up something that we have all known for all these years!
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